Water quality report doesn't really give much assurance

Dear editor:

Those of us who pay water bills get ours this week. With it came the Water Quality Data Table.

Of the 12 contaminants listed, the sample years range from 2004-2008; one quarter of them are from 2004.

The powers behind the letter care so little for accuracy that the first sentence reads: "The table below lists all the drinking water contaminants that were detected during the calendar year of this report."

This all-purpose, one-size-fits-all introductory paragraph is so non-specific or irrelevant along with that table as the render it meaningless.

Dow Chemical, Johnson and Johnson ("the family company") work hard and pay research scientists millions a year to invent new chemical compounds that find their way into our homes and into our water systems, and we have no current tests to know how safe our water is?

Like water, environmental conditions are fluid. Maybe the contaminants levels remained static, maybe they didn't, but we will never know without current data and testing for additional contaminants.

Joan Hobbs